Post subject: Eclipse Of The Sun At Pumpkin Center on Standard Disc Record

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2017 5:09 pm

Victor III

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With yesterday's momentous solar eclipse I dug out one of the more scarce Cal Stewart recordings from my collection on Standard Disc Record: The Eclipse Of The Sun At Pumpkin Center. I'm curious whether anyone else has this record. It's the only example I've ever found of this recording and it features a very interesting and unique monologue by Stewart regarding a solar eclipse event in his time. I'm hoping to post this recording on my YouTube channel before interest in our recent eclipse diminishes.

Thanks for the comments. It's interesting to discover (per Rod's comments) that the recording was also released on cylinder. I'll try to post my Standard Disc recording of this selection on my YouTube channel soon. Thankfully, my copy is in pretty nice condition so it should be enjoyable.

Victor A wrote:

A bit off topic, but who was fortunate to view the eclipse in its entirety?

Not us! We had only about a 65% effect from where we live so there was very little degradation in daylight during the peak coverage time. It must have been amazing to see for those with near 100%.

Apparently there are two Pumpkin Centers in NC and the one near me had a great view of the eclipse, just outside Charlotte, NC. Which reminds me... we should have a Pumpkin Center Uncle Josh Festival. This one was named after the Uncle Josh records became popular in the early 1900s.

"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.

"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."My Wife

You can also add this title on "The Thomas Record" (also a Columbia client pressing). I've got it on that which is also the only example of a "Thomas Record" I own. If I can put my hands on it anytime soon, I'll add a photo here. It's in one of my record cabinets, but which one is a little bit of a question

Apparently there are two Pumpkin Centers in NC and the one near me had a great view of the eclipse, just outside Charlotte, NC. Which reminds me... we should have a Pumpkin Center Uncle Josh Festival. This one was named after the Uncle Josh records became popular in the early 1900s.

I decided to hunt-down my Columbia cylinder copy of this Cal Stewart monologue. I have never played it before. There are a couple of bad spots at the beginning and the actual recording time is 2 minutes, 29 seconds. A lot to cram on a 2 minute cylinder. Notice in this version, Stewart refers to the Eclipse of 69 (7 August 1869)

Hopefully, the disc version will be posted here too, sometime in the future.

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